I earned my PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine in 2017. My doctoral research examined Middle East and North African states as countries of migrant and refugee settlement and my dissertation was titled "Reluctant Reception: Understanding Host State Migration and Refugee Policies in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey." It was chosen for the 2018 Best Dissertation award by the Migration and Citizenship section of the American Political Science Association and is now under contract as a book manuscript with Cambridge University Press.